Part I: Theory
1. Enduring International Rivalries: Concepts, Background,
and Basic Themes 3
2. The Strategic Structure of Enduring International
Rivalries: A Game-Theoretic Perspective 27
3. Learning, Preference Change, and the Evolution of
Enduring Rivalries 51
Part II: Historical and Quantitative Evidence
4. Research Design: Single and Comparative Case Studies 87
5. The Emergence of Enduring Rivalries: Comparative Cases 109
6. The Strategic Evolution of the Egyptian-Israeli Rivalry,
1948-79 135
7. The Strategic Evolution of the Syrian-Israeli Rivalry,
1948-99 176
8. The Emergence, Evolution, and Termination of Enduring
International Rivalries, 1816-1992: A Quantitative Test of
the Evolutionary Model 224
9. Conclusions: What Have We Learned? 256